Tickets on sale today for UFC 157, featuring Rousey's first UFC title defense

As a reminder, tickets for “UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche” go on sale today for the February show.

UFC 157 takes place Feb. 23 at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. The card will be an historic one featuring not only the first women’s fight in UFC history, but the first women’s main event as newly crowned women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (6-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) defends her title against Liz Carmouche (7-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC).

The main card will air on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook.

UFC Fight Club members can purchase tickets Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT). Additionally, subscribers of the UFC’s e-newsletter can purchase tickets Thursday at 1 p.m. ET and the general public will be able to get tickets Friday at 1 p.m. ET. Tickets range in price from $50 to $350, plus fees.

Also on the card, a potential top contender’s bout between light heavyweights Dan Henderson (29-8 MMA, 6-2 UFC) and Lyoto Machida (18-3 MMA, 10-3 UFC) will serve as the co-main event, and former featherweight champion Urijah Faber (26-6 MMA, 2-2 UFC) returns for the first time since a July interim bantamweight title loss to Renan Barao as he takes on Ivan Menjivar (25-9 MMA, 4-1 UFC).

Rousey was introduced by UFC President Dana White earlier this month in Seattle and was officially presented with her UFC belt. The former Strikeforce bantamweight champion has a perfect record consisting solely of first-round armbar submissions and has rocketed to international stardom over the past year.

After winning the Strikeforce belt against Misha Tate in March, Rousey defended it in August against Sarah Kaufman. She also appeared on the cover of ESPN Magazine’s “Body Issue,” was written up in Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone, been featured in specials on Showtime and NBC Sports Network, co-hosted with TMZ and is nominated for a record four World MMA Awards.

White credits Rousey with helping him turn the corner in his opinion of women’s MMA. For years, White said he didn’t believe women’s MMA would find a place in the UFC, not out of a lack of interest in it, but because there weren’t yet the level of standout fighters to warrant building a division. But Rousey’s rise to stardom in the cage, and her drawing power outside of it, helped change that, and White has said the UFC will build up a women’s bantamweight division that obviously already includes Carmouche.

For highlights of Rousey’s introduction as UFC women’s bantamweight champion and White’s announcement of her fight at UFC 157, check out the video above.

UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey is probably the greatest female fighter on the planet, which is a tremendous feat. So why are we seemingly so obsessed with arguing about whether she could beat up men?